VimpelCom Says Launched EDGE in Nizhny Novgorod

MOSCOW, Aug 29 (Prime-Tass) -- Russia?s second largest mobile operator VimpelCom has launched EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) services in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, the company said Tuesday.

VimpelCom started testing EDGE services in the city in August 2005, according to earlier reports.

The company said that of its EDGE services in Nizhny Novgorod have a data transfer speed of between 80 and 150 kilobits per second.

VimpelCom is a leading telecommunications operator in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), with operations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The company had a total of 49.880 million users as of May 31, according to Advanced Communications & Media (AC&M).

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Posted to the site on 29th August 2006